Dark One, Brandon Sanderson
Dark One, Brandon Sanderson
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Dark One
Forgotten

Author: Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells

Series: Dark One

Narrator: Rachel Jacobs, Sophie Oda, Keith Szarabajka, Kaleo Griffith, Avery Waddell, Kelli Tager, John H. Mayer, Mia Barron, Jose Luis Bermudez, William Elsman, Nan McNamara, Jim Meskimen, Roxanne Hernandez

Unabridged: 6 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/10/2023


Synopsis

From #1 New York Times bestselling, Hugo Award–winning author Brandon Sanderson, and co-author Dan Wells, comes DARK ONE: FORGOTTEN, a true-crime fantasy audio series and the first entry in Brandon Sanderson’s new DARK ONE fantasy saga.

Every year in the United States there are fifteen thousand murders, give or take a few hundred. Of those, nearly forty percent go unsolved.

In this six-part audio series, Christina Walsh is determined to change that. After struggling with the loss of her father, she sets out on a journey to bring the justice that has eluded her to the families of other victims. And she starts with a particularly strange case. The murder
of world-renowned violinist Leona McPherson, who mysteriously disappeared years ago after a concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. As Christina digs deeper, the story gets stranger. Leona was a prodigy, someone too good to be forgotten, but that’s exactly
what has happened. She’s been forgotten. Entirely. By everyone who knew her. From the gushing music critic in her hometown, to the detectives investigating her murder, even her own mother.

So Christina embarks on a cross-country mission, with her roommate Sophie, to figure out what happened to Leona. In the process she uncovers a trail of similar victims who have suffered the same fate. But if no one can remember the victims, how can the killer possibly
be caught? Christina’s only leads come from a crazed homeless man’s ramblings, a mysterious glass eye, and an otherworldly totem. Is Christina crazy or has she stumbled upon something so implausible it must be true?

About Brandon Sanderson

American author, Brandon Sanderson, writes of epic fantasy and science fiction. His best known works include Cosmere, a fictional universe in which most of his novels are set. They include, the Mistborn series, and the Stormlight Archive, and also finishing The Wheel of Time, that was Robert Jordan's high fantasy novel (that he began writing before his untimely death). He also made popular the terms "hard and soft magic systems" in his Sanderson's Laws of Magic. The media company, DMG Entertainment has rights to the production movie of the Cosmere universe series.

Sanderson graduated from Brigham Young University. He began studies in biochemistry, to become a doctor, but after a two year break to do mission work for his church, he decided he wanted to write, and changed majors to English Literature. He took a night job at a local hotel in Provo, Utah while at BYU, so he could write while working. His roommate during that time was Ken Jennings, who ten years later had a 74-game winning streak on Jeopardy. After graduation from BYU, Sanderson married Emily Bushman, a fellow English major who later became his business manager.

Sanderson sold his first book to Moshe Feder at Tor in 2003. He had almost given up after submitting his manuscript a year and one half earlier. That first novel was Elantris, and over the next few years, Tor also published the Mistborn Trilogy, The Alloy of Law, Warbreaker, and The Way of Kings, the first in the ten-volume series, The Stormlight Archive. The second in that series was Words of Radiance. Other volumes continue in the works. Sanderson's acclaimed Infinity Blade: Awakening was an ebook best seller for Epic Games, accompanying their popular iOS video game series.

Sanderson, his wife, Emily, and their three sons live in American Fork, Utah.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anna [Bran. San. Stan] on May 07, 2023

Wow, this was so much fun! I really don’t understand why this collaboration hasn’t gotten more attention. Dark One: Forgotten is an audio serial in the “style of a true crime six-episode podcast.” Before you go check out audible, it is important to know, going into this, that this mockumentary podca......more

Goodreads review by Nick on January 24, 2023

Ugh this was not for me. Maybe I can't do audio dramas, but the whole thing felt juvenile and the protagonists were cringey and insufferable.......more

Goodreads review by Stanley on January 10, 2023

I really hope this audio drama finds its audience because it was really good, but feels as if it has gotten lost with the recent release of Tress. I’m going to have to reread the Dark One GN to see where this sits, but it feels like this can easily stand on its own without having to read the GN, whi......more

Goodreads review by Shreyas on May 26, 2023

'Dark One: Forgotten' (Dark One #0.5) by Brandon Sanderson and Dan Wells. Rating: 2.5/5. Review: Back in 2020, I read the Dark One (first volume) graphic novel when it was initially released in a limited run. It has been a long time since I last read it, and, as a result, I don't remember the intr......more

Goodreads review by Hans on April 14, 2023

This was a really fun listen! A Sanderson story, in the form of a true crime podcast.. If this is any indication of what the colaboration with Dan Wells is going to be like, i'm super excited. Excellent voice work by the actors playing the parts here, a good mystery with plenty of suspense, and a rea......more